The Back End of Innovation
Here's a very lucid and well-written article by Rowan Gibson on the importance of getting your company's back end of innovation together.
Rowan's rant is consistent with my own experience. It also provokes you to consider one of the ultimate paradoxes of organizational innovation. On one hand, forward thinking companies need to take care of the unglorious back end of innovation -- all that behind-the-scene stuff that increases the odds of good ideas actually manifesting. On the other hand, most organizations' attempts to establish a robust back end usually devolves to stultifying, over-engineered, inhumane "processes."
What's needed is balance -- the artful blend of ideation, integration, and implementation.
Anyway, read Rowan's article. It's worth the five minutes it will take.
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at January 17, 2010 03:29 PM
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